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Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society, 2007th Edition by Ted Trainer - ISBN: 9781402055485
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It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed.

Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society, 2007th Edition

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    198 pages

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    2 August 2007

Summary

It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed. This book details the reasons why this almost unquestioned assumption is seriously mistaken.

Chapters on wind, photovoltaic and solar thermal sources argue that these are not able to meet present electricity demands, let alone future demands. Even more impossible will be meeting the demand…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781402055485
ISBN-10:140205548X
Author:Ted Trainer
Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:198
Edition:2007th
Release Date:2 August 2007
Weight:1.04kg
Dimensions:235mm x 155mm
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“Ted Trainer, of the University of New South Wales, has made a valuable contribution to the literature of energy and resource depletion with his new book Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society. … Anyone interested in Energy Descent Planning, Community Powerdown responses and Economic Localisation should read this book.” , September, 2008)

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